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Volume
69B
Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards
Abstract
This work is based on a series of papers in the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society: A homotopy theorem for matroids, I and II, 88, 144-174 (1958); and Matroids and graphs, 90, 572-552 (1959). These papers set out a theory of matroids, with special emphasis on the conditions for a matroid to represent a graph. The treatment is as rigorous as that in the original papers, but it is hoped that the present work is easier to read, because less condensed. Many theorems originally proved only for regular matroids have been generalized to the less restricted class of binary ones, and the last part of the work has been improved by the incorporation of a theory of even matroids.
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2012-09-19 19:07:00
Cite
J. Res. Natl. Bur. Stand., Sec. B: Math.& Math. Phys., Sec. B: Math.& Math. Phys., Vol. 68B, No. 1-2, p. 1